chapter 12

Question 1

personality

Answer 1

consistent patterns of thoughts feelings and behaviors that define us across different situations across time

Question 2

2 approaches to personality

Answer 2

1. idiographic approach to personality research
   - the goal is to develop a thorough understanding of the specific personality characteristics that make a person unique
2. nomothetic approach to personality research
   - the goal is to study aspect of personality across large groups to understand what features of personality distinguish different types of people

Question 3

Gordon Allport

Answer 3

generated a list of thousands of words that we use to describe people in English and attempted to group them into a smaller number of personality dimensions

Question 4

what did psychologists rely on to get responses?

Answer 4

questionnaires

- one problem with relying on questionnaires responses is that peoples memory about themselves is not 100% accurate.

Question 5

the Barnum effect

Answer 5

a personality